They’ve Experienced ‘Scents of Trouble’

“Scents of Trouble” by Doretta Zemp (Sept. 18) should be hailed as a public service article. There are many people, including my wife and me, who suffer varying degrees of consequences due to perfumes. My wife can get a ferocious migraine headache, while I may just have some mild nausea. Visiting an emergency room to suppress a migraine headache is an unpleasant and perhaps unnecessary experience when you consider that it might have been avoided by not being forced to inhale toxic chemicals worn by men or women who have no idea that you can smell them a block away, or that the smell lingers long after they have passed.

John E. Bailey, acting director of the FDA’s Division of Colors and Cosmetics, is simply a person who hasn’t experienced the problem and therefore takes a cavalier attitude towards it. Believe me, it’s a problem. Believe me, (perfume is) toxic and definitely a pollutant.

ARTIE KANE

Los Angeles